PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (15 October 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that Article 4(3) of the 2012 Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and girls is ratified into UK law.

Asked by:
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)

The UK signed the Istanbul Convention in 2012, signalling its strong commitment to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) and this Government remains committed to ratifying it.

The Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Act 2017 requires Ministers to publish annual reports on their progress towards being able to ratify the Convention. The third such report was published on 31 October 2019.

We will shortly be publishing this year’s report on our progress, which will set out our compliance position and the steps we are taking towards ratification.

Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
20 October 2020